Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 2 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
| 3 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 4 | Take your word for it … but from someone who takes 5 mins to find a toilet when being told and it being right in front of them ; - ) ) ) ) |
| 5 | And as someone who buys 80 tonnes of live lobsters from Canada and 75 tonnes of prawns from Thailand every year , lunch is a decidedly unglamorous affair . |
| 6 | I think you have to sort of , lay your ground rules , I mean state your case , quite early on and it , I mean , you know , if , if you 're not good first thing in the morning , you know , you could tell someone you need three cups of coffee before you 're safe to approach or if erm , there 's a lazy slob who sort of lies on the sofa all day , you could throw the dishcloth at him , or erm , and also , I mean if it , if there are sort of badly behaved pets and , and children , erm , you know , just , just do n't invite them , and if that means your guest list is , is somewhat shorter then all to the good . |
| 7 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 8 | That one I got five days ’ notice for and it was quite nerve-wracking , as there was tons of complicated stuff to learn . |
| 9 | Yeah , well the one I got , I go , one I got five pound off she lives alone and she 's in that flat and everything . |
| 10 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 11 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 12 | An operator is simply something which turns one vector into another . |
| 13 | My auntie 's got one which takes six discs in a little box like that . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most familiar type of compound is the one which combines two nouns , and normally has the stress on the first element , as in : |
| 15 | We are at present much exercised in considering the possibility that in order to satisfy the CATE criteria , particularly the one which stipulates two years of subject study , our commitment in this area of work may have to be reduced . |
| 16 | I think looking at the market you can , you can get a , erm detached , semi-detached sort of one you know one bedroom I suppose , |
| 17 | Where 's your other one you had two ducks when you , ah , there 's one down there look near Hazel 's feet . |
| 18 | Longer-term effects were studied in four young couples , three who normally slept about 8 hours every night , and one who slept 6.5 hours a night , who volunteered to attempt to reduce their sleep progressively to 4.5 hours a night over a period of between six and eight months . |
| 19 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 20 | ‘ That woman … the one who had twelve children . ’ |
| 21 | Risking everything he grabbed two tomatoes and the biggest apples before bedding down for another night under cover of trees . |
| 22 | Resistance sources in Peshawar believe that hard-line Pushtun leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar , who is attacking Bagram , may try to stage a coup in Kabul — something he attempted two years ago — denying the northern minorities power . |
| 23 | Six six what does s what does six er let's have a look at this one what does three times two mean ? |
| 24 | In fact , I would suggest that anybody who has one ounce of individuality should never go to a business school — and I 've said this often at Cranfield and London — because you 're structured by academics who measure you in the science of business . |
| 25 | She says that the bailiffs came very early and told everyone they had 10 minutes to get out . |
| 26 | Anyone who drinks 2½ pints of beer or ½ bottle of wine and then drives a car is almost certainly breaking the law unless he waits patiently for the liver to reduce blood alcohol levels . |
| 27 | Anyone who holds 60,000 people on their own in a hall , is an act ; they do n't do that at home . |